Burleigh F. Spalding

Burleigh F. Spalding
Burleigh F. Spalding
	Thomas Frank Marshall
Preceded by	seat created
Succeeded by	Asle Gronna
	In office; March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901
Preceded by	Martin N. Johnson
Succeeded by	Thomas Frank Marshall
Personal details
Born	December 3, 1853; Craftsbury, Vermont, US
Died	March 17, 1934 (aged 80); Fargo, North Dakota, US
Political party	Republican
Profession	Lawyer

Burleigh Folsom Spalding (December 3, 1853 – March 17, 1934) was a

United States representative from North Dakota. He was born on a farm near Craftsbury, Vermont. He attended the Lyndon Literary Institute in Lyndon, Vermont and was graduated from Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont in 1877. He studied law in Montpelier, Vermont and was admitted to the bar in 1880.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

In March 1880, he relocated to Fargo, North Dakota and commenced practice there. In 1882–1884, he was superintendent of public instruction of Cass County, North Dakota. On November 25, 1880, Burleigh F. Spalding married Alida Baker of Vermont.^[6]^[2]^[4]

Spalding was a member of the commission to relocate the capital of the

Territory of Dakota and build the capitol in 1883 and a member of the North Dakota constitutional convention in 1889. He was the chairman of the Republican State central committee of North Dakota 1892–1894 and of the Cass County Republican committee 1896–1898.^[1]^[4]

He was elected as a Republican to the

Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905) and was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904.^[2]^[7]

He was appointed in 1907 and elected in 1908 an associate justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court and became chief justice in 1911 and served until 1915 after which he resumed the practice of law in Fargo, North Dakota in 1915.^[2]^[3]^[8]

He served as a delegate to most Republican Territorial and State conventions 1888–1933 and as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924.^[3]

He died in Fargo, North Dakota in 1934 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery.

References

^ ^a ^b "SPALDING, Burleigh Folsom". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Burleigh F. Spalding". North Dakota Court System. Archived from the original on December 5, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Burleigh F. Spalding Papers, 1890, 1924-1925". University of North Dakota, Department of Special Collections. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Burleigh Spalding's Early Years". Prairie Public Broadcasting. March 15, 2018. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ "Orleans County VT Biographies". Vermont Trails History and Genealogy. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ Flower, F. W. (1899). "Souvenir, North Dakota Legislature, 1899". www.digitalhorizonsonline.org. Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
^ "Spalding was N.D. pioneer". InForum. April 26, 2008. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
^ "Justice Spalding". Prairie Public Broadcasting. September 18, 2019. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.

External links

Burleigh F. Spalding at Find a Grave

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Martin N. Johnson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's at-large congressional district March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901	Succeeded by Thomas Frank Marshall
Preceded by None: new seat added	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's at-large congressional district March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905	Succeeded by Asle Gronna
Legal offices
Preceded by David Morgan	Chief Justice of North Dakota 1911–1915	Succeeded by Charles Joseph Fisk